Buffoonery

There are many sites on the web which amaze visitors because of general stupidity, lack of logic, or just plain detachment from reality. The sites listed below provide some sensible answers to the craziness. (You can see a collection of buffoons at The Millenium Project.)

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Australian Skeptics

Australian Skeptics at Yahoo!7 (Peter Bowdiitch)

Bad Psychics

Bad Psychics (Australia)

Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit

Carl Sagan's classic essay on the identification of nonsense.

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (formerly CSICOP)

An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (James Randi)

An online, searchable edition of Randi's classic collections of definitions of nonsense.

Merchants of Deception (Eric Scheibeler)

One man's battle with the Amway dream.

Pseudodoxia Epidemica : or, Enquiries Into very many Received Tenents And commonly presumed Truths. (Sir Thomas Browne)

Sir Thomas Browne's great 1646 treatise on fallible thinking and self-deception.

Refuting the Most Common Feminist Lies and Pseudo-Scholarship (Robert Sheaffer)

The Skeptic's Dictionary (Robert T. Carroll)

"A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions"

The Skeptic's Field Guide (Jef and Theo Clark)

The Skeptics Society (Michael Shermer)

Urban Legends Reference Pages (Snopes)

What's The Harm?

The Woo-Woo Credo

The rules you need to follow to be a genuine Internet woo-woo or kook.